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Apollo was the Greek god of music and he occasionally drove the Sun around the Earth in his golden chariot to create the sunrise and sunset, when Helios, another Greek god, was "retired" or on break. He was also somewhat the god of discovery and innovation, as some have said, so when the NASA personel were brainstorming names for their rocket, they made the relation of their soon-to-be ground-breaking feat. They continuosly named their spacecrafts Apollo, as in Apollo 11, 3, 8, ect...

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